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...The new book, a queasy reimagining of Lolita set in the Dutch countryside, is sure to make waves....
...N21 by Alessandro Dell’Acqua leather Lolita Charlotte bag, £590. Charles and Ray Eames for Vitra DSX Hopsack chair in 71 Yellow, £475....
...Baby One More Time”, presents Britney as a 16-year-old Lolita, in pigtails and a Catholic school uniform. She was still publicly claiming to be a virgin at the time....
...Curated by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Adrian Lester, each of the seven existing monologues focuses on one decade....
...Nonchalant as a gay icon, he is initially a passive, willing sitter, often dozing, described in rapturous, rapid lines, uncluttered but taking in every aspect of oval head, Lolita lips, fluttering lashes...
...Sheffield Crucible’s hugely praised, puppet-led Life of Pi, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti, arrives in London (Wyndham’s Theatre, London, from June 22)....
...But the film ends with a redemption: in 2014 he was chosen to curate Meltdown, a music festival at London’s Southbank Centre whose previous curators included David Bowie, Patti Smith and Morrissey....
...; a joyful anticipation of two hours’ Armageddon with wackily wardrobed stars — Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto — speaking naff or po-mo dialogue....
...Girls dressed as Sweet Lolitas first appeared on the streets of Tokyo in the 1990s, and today there are many thriving subcultures including “Punk Lolita” and “Gothic Lolita” (or “Goth-Loli”)....
...They presented three “books” with beautiful facsimile artwork of their actual covers – The Great Gatsby, Lolita and The Little Prince (from £55 custom made)....
...The episode in Lolita when Humbert sits with the young girl on his lap could echo the times the author’s uncle, Ruka, “took the nine-year-old Nabokov on his knee after lunch”....
...He cited as an example the Lolita range of girls’ bedroom furniture that Woolworths withdrew from sale in 2008....
...At about page 220, when Lolita leaves Humbert, there’s a huge influx of energy, he says....
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